Post-Modern architecture

Post-Modern architecture

From the late 1960s on, a term describing architecture that connotes a break with the canons of International Style modernism. Functionalism and emphasis on the expression of structure are rejected in favor of a greater freedom of design, including Classical historic imagery. This leads to a new interplay of contemporary forms and materials with frequent historic allusions, often ironic, as, for example, in the use of nonsupporting Classical columns and medieval arches. Post-Modern architecture also accepts the manifestations of commercial mass culture, such as bright colors, neon lights, and advertising signs. Also See Neo-Eclectic.

Both volumes have a new introduction on the impact of globalization, and new essays address the development of Synthetic Cubism, early avant-garde film, Brazilian modernism, postmodern architecture, Moscow conceptualism, queer art, South African photography, and the rise of the new museum of art in recent years.

Raggatt has devoted his career to extending the linguistic plays and historical references pioneered by postmodern architecture into rhetorical gestures aimed at undercutting the dominance of the Euro-American canon; here he inverted Corbusier's icon by rendering the white exterior walls of the original building in black.

But the quiet luxury of Portmeirion is not what it seems as something more sinister lurks underneath, and the very welldressed man attempts to escape from the stylishly dressed models who inhabit the stunning village, which has long been credited as being a huge influence on postmodern architecture in the late 20th century.

But more than just the expanded hours, the postmodern architecture and new, updated materials, patrons are attracted to the general vibe at the library, and no budget cut will be able to burst that bubble.

In the 30 years or so since my generation was avidly devouring Charles Jencks' The Language of Postmodern Architecture, architectural theory seems to have become more impenetrable, often merely for the sake of it, like much architecture, in fact.

The point is clear: works of postmodern architecture frequently incorporate Commoditie, Firmeness and Delight as a structural imperative, even in settings that ostensibly call for budgetary realism or functionalist restraint.

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